Colloquium
Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 pm in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.

Nov. 16, 1999 | John C. Mankins (’78), NASA Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable Human Exploration of the Solar System |
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Nov. 9, 1999 | Denise M. Krol, University of California at Davis Optical Materials for Waveguide and Fiber Devices |
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Oct. 26, 1999 | Roger Carlson (’89), TRW The Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, or, Why I Should Have Paid Attention in Theo-Mech |
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Oct. 5, 1999 | Mary Barsony, University of California at Riverside The Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems in Our Era |
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Sept. 21, 1999 | Stephen K. Park, University of California at Riverside Use of Naturally Occurring Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves for Determination of Feologic Structure |
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May 4, 1999 | Paul Kwiat, University of California at Riverside Something Quantum This Way Comes |
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April 20, 1999 | Harry Tom, University of California at Riverside What Can Happen in a Few Femtoseconds? |
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April 6, 1999 | Henry C. Kapteyn (’83), University of Michigan Ultrashort Light Pulses |
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March 23, 1999 | Michael Cross, Caltech Controlling Chaos: Towards Quieting the Beating Heart |
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March 2, 1999 | Robert P. Wolf, Harvey Mudd College Boojums and Hyperbolic Hedgehogs: Strange Beauty of Nematic Liquid Crystal Emulsions |
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Feb. 9, 1999 | David J. Stevenson, Caltech The Formation of the Earth and the Role of Impacts on the Origin of Life |
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Feb. 2, 1999 | James R. Groome, Harvey Mudd College Deactivation Kinetics of Sodium Channels in Skeltal Muscle: Independent or Cooperative Gating? |
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Nov. 24, 1998 | Robert Knop (’90), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Measuring the Expansion of the Universe with Supernovae |
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Nov. 19, 1998 | Thomas R. Cech, University of Colorado at Boulder Life at the end of the Chromosome: Where Chemistry and Biology Meet Bioinformatics |
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Oct. 27, 1998 | Lee Casperson, Portland State University Instabilities and Chaos in Lasers and Other Physics Systems |